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The Boy with the Topknot: A Memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in Wolverhampton (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for The Boy with the TopknotFor Sathnam Sanghera, growing up in Wolverhampton in the eighties was a confusing business. There was his family, whose strange and often difficult behaviour he took for granted until, at the age of twenty-four, Sathnam made a discovery that changed everything he ever thought he knew about them.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Published: 30 April 2009
- Format: Paperback 336 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Memoirs | Religious Groups: Social & Cultural Aspects | Press & Journalism | Information Technology Industries
- ISBN 13: 9780141028590 ISBN 10: 0141028599
- Sales rank: 4,027
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Full description for The Boy with the Topknot
'It's 1979, I'm three years old, and like all breakfast times during my youth it begins with Mum combing my hair, a ritual for which I have to sit down on the second-hand, floral-patterned settee, and lean forward, like I'm presenting myself for execution.' For Sathnam Sanghera, growing up in Wolverhampton in the eighties was a confusing business. On the one hand, these were the heady days of George Michael mix-tapes, Dallas on TV and, if he was lucky, the occasional Bounty Bar. On the other, there was his wardrobe of tartan smocks, his 30p-an-hour job at the local sewing factory and the ongoing challenge of how to tie the perfect top-knot. And then there was his family, whose strange and often difficult behaviour he took for granted until, at the age of twenty-four, Sathnam made a discovery that changed everything he ever thought he knew about them. Equipped with breathtaking courage and a glorious sense of humour, he embarks on a journey into their extraordinary past - from his father's harsh life in rural Punjab to the steps of the Wolverhampton Tourist Office - trying to make sense of a life lived among secrets. This book is published in hardback as "If You Don't Know Me by Now".
